That's almost as hilarious as the 50 or so the UK has had in its time.
We have 2 new ones under construction in the UK and we only realised after we started building them that we don't actually have any planes to put on the them yet while we wait for our FGR4 replacements and our F-35s from you guys.
Often doesn't matter, clever crooks debit £1 here and there on a continual basis, much like the little bastard in one of the corner shops next to my office.
Took me about 6 months to not notice, it was only when Barclays automated fraud system noticed and flagged it up that my card was blocked and a new one issued.
I trust Microsoft more than Google with my computing behavior given their track record of telling the government to piss off and some of the comments of Eric Schmidt.
It's funny you should say that, my google account which I started in the closed beta of Gmail (i.e. I had for years) and decided to make my primary account for e-mail, then blogger, then youtube along with all of my site / analytics data, contacts and my search history for the best part of 10 years, I lost when my account was compromised through a Gmail exploit.
I must have sent 50 compromised account / account recovery forms with ALL the correct information, posted on google groups support forums, I even tried to phone them, all of my attempts failed and most of the feedback I was getting from asking around was that they don't give a shit about you unless you're a business customer, short of going down to there offices there wasn't anything I could do about it.
Now, going back to before I had my google account (hotmail days), I remember 2 or 3 times there being occasions when my free [read: not a business customer] hotmail / msn passport was compromised and everytime an e-mail to microsoft resulted in a [read] human response within a few hours and each time they were more than helpful at getting my account back after I verified who I was with them through various means.
Is there anyone from Google that can tell me why their customer service is so alarmingly poor? I've yet to find you. I expected a lot more from Google considering the vast quantities of personal information they gather through various means on their users.
It's a movie where different types of wildlife (birds, elephants et al) try to avoid death by natural disaster(s), such as earthquakes, tornados, volcanic ash clouds and Gordon Brown.
Geocities and Freenetnames are the reason I do what I do today pretty much. I started hammering out all kinds of sites on Geocities as a kid for shits and giggles, Geocities gave me the hosting capability and freenetnames gave me a free domain. I had some pretty popular sites then, funny thinking back now.
I'd be interested to see how stable your windows 7 boot camp partition becomes after you fire it up with Fusion 3; when I fired up my XP boot camp partition in Fusion 2 a while back the instance of XP I ran went through the process of recognising all the hardware changes / installing new drivers at startup then kept freezing every couple of seconds whenever I tried to use it - it never went back to the way it was before I did that - I ended up having to reinstall my boot camp partition all over again.
That. Earning money requires time and energy; I wish I had the time to sit and play games when I get home while in a contract - I'm usually too tired to do anything other than go straight to bed when I get home from work.
I think carrying a mobile phone or other electronic device with a nuclear power source in your pocket is a bit different to a smoke detector that sits stationary on your ceiling / wall.
Seriously, I can't wait to get the functionality (when it works) of Firebug completely the same in WebKit / Safari / Chrome et al so that I can scrap Firefox. Firefox has become the most annoying thing I have to deal with on a day to day basis while trying to get work done, constant memory leaks, random crashes and that's before I've even added extensions. Adding firebug to firefox now is like asking for a cup of insanity to be delivered to your door by Mr. Insano Man.
It doesn't matter, it doesn't *need* to be a Facebook app. I wrote an application that did exactly as described above (including OCR to pull peoples e-mails from their profiles), so that I could export my 500 odd friends from Facebook into a CSV file that I could then import into Twitter because Facebook doesn't have an option to export my contacts. *sigh*
It didn't take long, maybe an hour or two to write and then an hour to refactor / test to iron out the quirks, which saved me a lot of extra hours I would have had to spend loading up 500 profiles to write out all my friends details manually.
It's really stupid of Apple to try and block the Pre from the iTMS eco-system. Apple sells non-DRM music through that store and makes a little bit (most goes to the record companies, but Apple still makes something and enhances their standing as the world's biggest digital music store) music through iTMS that can be played on the Pre - so why throw out this market and hope that you can force them into an iPod only to make more money now? Be nice and they might buy an iPod later because of a good experience with iTunes.
Because Apple will make more from selling applications on the iPhone in the long run. When you look at the costs involved in getting a developer account setup, getting an application submitted and approved you've already spent a pretty penny as a developer before you've even started selling anything yet. It's in Apples interests to put people off the possibility of buying a Pre and scrapping their iPhone. People can download music illegally, bypassing iTunes altogether - recent figures show that legal music download sales are following a declining trend while illegal download sales increase - but iPhone App Store sales are increasing at a very substantial rate - Apple are being smart in creating new sustainable revenue streams by adapting to and creating new markets, e.g. in the form of the App Store.
If you want to pirate that great application in the app store for your iPhone I very much doubt you'll find it lurking on some random torrent site because of the costs / time involved in getting things done the official route. If you do you'll need a jailbroken iPhone which will open the device upto security exploits and voiding your warranty etc. Don't quote me on it but I would imagine the proportion of non-jailbroken iPhones easily outweighs the number of jailbroken / unlocked iPhones.
Someone may release jailbreaking software to counter the patches Apple make with each new version of the iPhone OS but do you really think the average consumer really wants to go through the hassle of jailbreaking everytime and possibly risk fucking up a device they've paid a substantial amount of money for? - At the end of the day people are willing to pay a premium for the phone because it's a good device.
I've tried every 'iPhone killer / alternative' and none of them can match the ease of use with the iPhone as a mobile computing device, the only thing I've witnessed to come anywhere close so far are the Android based G1 / G2 devices, I see Google as being the real competitors to the iPhone in the time to come for consumers and if Apple continue to improve support for business needs with the iPhone I see them dominating a market that Blackberry have a hold on at the moment in the not too distant future.
Nokia may still dominate the smartphone market share but last time I checked they're losing market share progressively even though overall smartphone market share is on the increase and considering the iPhone is locked to a single carrier in a lot of the countries that really count towards those figures I only see that increasing when exclusivity contracts finally disappear. For every iPhone owner I know I must know 10 people that would get an iPhone immediately if they could get it on their own network.
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I was probably wasted.
That's almost as hilarious as the 50 or so the UK has had in its time.
We have 2 new ones under construction in the UK and we only realised after we started building them that we don't actually have any planes to put on the them yet while we wait for our FGR4 replacements and our F-35s from you guys.
Often doesn't matter, clever crooks debit £1 here and there on a continual basis, much like the little bastard in one of the corner shops next to my office. Took me about 6 months to not notice, it was only when Barclays automated fraud system noticed and flagged it up that my card was blocked and a new one issued.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Perfect, provided it doesn't knock out power to the ("generators") compressors.
No, wait...
Should be good for making touch based devices more accessible to blind / partially sighted people.
I trust Microsoft more than Google with my computing behavior given their track record of telling the government to piss off and some of the comments of Eric Schmidt.
It's funny you should say that, my google account which I started in the closed beta of Gmail (i.e. I had for years) and decided to make my primary account for e-mail, then blogger, then youtube along with all of my site / analytics data, contacts and my search history for the best part of 10 years, I lost when my account was compromised through a Gmail exploit.
I must have sent 50 compromised account / account recovery forms with ALL the correct information, posted on google groups support forums, I even tried to phone them, all of my attempts failed and most of the feedback I was getting from asking around was that they don't give a shit about you unless you're a business customer, short of going down to there offices there wasn't anything I could do about it.
Now, going back to before I had my google account (hotmail days), I remember 2 or 3 times there being occasions when my free [read: not a business customer] hotmail / msn passport was compromised and everytime an e-mail to microsoft resulted in a [read] human response within a few hours and each time they were more than helpful at getting my account back after I verified who I was with them through various means.
Is there anyone from Google that can tell me why their customer service is so alarmingly poor? I've yet to find you. I expected a lot more from Google considering the vast quantities of personal information they gather through various means on their users.
Even normal people [not geeks] know as soon as you buy a piece of technology it's out-of-date.
It's a movie where different types of wildlife (birds, elephants et al) try to avoid death by natural disaster(s), such as earthquakes, tornados, volcanic ash clouds and Gordon Brown.
Geocities and Freenetnames are the reason I do what I do today pretty much. I started hammering out all kinds of sites on Geocities as a kid for shits and giggles, Geocities gave me the hosting capability and freenetnames gave me a free domain. I had some pretty popular sites then, funny thinking back now.
I remember using the web on my hayes 2400 bps modem. I think that's roughly ~4,000x slower than todays potential average of 10mb.
I'd be interested to see how stable your windows 7 boot camp partition becomes after you fire it up with Fusion 3; when I fired up my XP boot camp partition in Fusion 2 a while back the instance of XP I ran went through the process of recognising all the hardware changes / installing new drivers at startup then kept freezing every couple of seconds whenever I tried to use it - it never went back to the way it was before I did that - I ended up having to reinstall my boot camp partition all over again.
because you're* weird
Are you weird because you're a geek, or a geek because your weird?
Ironically, my browser's crashed 5 or 6 times more than normal this morning after disabling that plugin; I'm sure it's completely unrelated though.
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Or is it?
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That. Earning money requires time and energy; I wish I had the time to sit and play games when I get home while in a contract - I'm usually too tired to do anything other than go straight to bed when I get home from work.
I thought Radium was banned from watches?
I think carrying a mobile phone or other electronic device with a nuclear power source in your pocket is a bit different to a smoke detector that sits stationary on your ceiling / wall.
Health and safety would have a field day with this.
Seriously, I can't wait to get the functionality (when it works) of Firebug completely the same in WebKit / Safari / Chrome et al so that I can scrap Firefox. Firefox has become the most annoying thing I have to deal with on a day to day basis while trying to get work done, constant memory leaks, random crashes and that's before I've even added extensions. Adding firebug to firefox now is like asking for a cup of insanity to be delivered to your door by Mr. Insano Man.
Yay!
Now, can we start porting FF extensions to webkit like, yesterday, please?
I wish I had mod points.
Accurate.
It doesn't matter, it doesn't *need* to be a Facebook app. I wrote an application that did exactly as described above (including OCR to pull peoples e-mails from their profiles), so that I could export my 500 odd friends from Facebook into a CSV file that I could then import into Twitter because Facebook doesn't have an option to export my contacts. *sigh*
It didn't take long, maybe an hour or two to write and then an hour to refactor / test to iron out the quirks, which saved me a lot of extra hours I would have had to spend loading up 500 profiles to write out all my friends details manually.
Blackberry having a hold on **businesses** at the moment, by the way.
It's really stupid of Apple to try and block the Pre from the iTMS eco-system. Apple sells non-DRM music through that store and makes a little bit (most goes to the record companies, but Apple still makes something and enhances their standing as the world's biggest digital music store) music through iTMS that can be played on the Pre - so why throw out this market and hope that you can force them into an iPod only to make more money now? Be nice and they might buy an iPod later because of a good experience with iTunes.
Because Apple will make more from selling applications on the iPhone in the long run. When you look at the costs involved in getting a developer account setup, getting an application submitted and approved you've already spent a pretty penny as a developer before you've even started selling anything yet. It's in Apples interests to put people off the possibility of buying a Pre and scrapping their iPhone. People can download music illegally, bypassing iTunes altogether - recent figures show that legal music download sales are following a declining trend while illegal download sales increase - but iPhone App Store sales are increasing at a very substantial rate - Apple are being smart in creating new sustainable revenue streams by adapting to and creating new markets, e.g. in the form of the App Store.
If you want to pirate that great application in the app store for your iPhone I very much doubt you'll find it lurking on some random torrent site because of the costs / time involved in getting things done the official route. If you do you'll need a jailbroken iPhone which will open the device upto security exploits and voiding your warranty etc. Don't quote me on it but I would imagine the proportion of non-jailbroken iPhones easily outweighs the number of jailbroken / unlocked iPhones.
Someone may release jailbreaking software to counter the patches Apple make with each new version of the iPhone OS but do you really think the average consumer really wants to go through the hassle of jailbreaking everytime and possibly risk fucking up a device they've paid a substantial amount of money for? - At the end of the day people are willing to pay a premium for the phone because it's a good device.
I've tried every 'iPhone killer / alternative' and none of them can match the ease of use with the iPhone as a mobile computing device, the only thing I've witnessed to come anywhere close so far are the Android based G1 / G2 devices, I see Google as being the real competitors to the iPhone in the time to come for consumers and if Apple continue to improve support for business needs with the iPhone I see them dominating a market that Blackberry have a hold on at the moment in the not too distant future.
Nokia may still dominate the smartphone market share but last time I checked they're losing market share progressively even though overall smartphone market share is on the increase and considering the iPhone is locked to a single carrier in a lot of the countries that really count towards those figures I only see that increasing when exclusivity contracts finally disappear. For every iPhone owner I know I must know 10 people that would get an iPhone immediately if they could get it on their own network.